Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced

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11/30/2010

In Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced, author and industry expert Deke McClelland teaches how to take advantage of the wide array of dynamic features in Illustrator CS5. This course demonstrates how to apply these features to paths, groups, and editable text to create professional-quality artwork. The course covers Live Trace, Live Paint, and Live Color, as well as symbols, gradients, exporting, and integration with Photoshop. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:

Tracing a pixel-based image

Sketching and drawing for Illustrator

Creating and editing gradients

Creating multi-colored blends

Creating seamlessly repeating tile patterns

Creating interlocking artwork with Live Paint

Designing advanced type effects

Recoloring artwork with color harmonies

Making the most of symbols

Integrating Illustrator with Photoshop

Using transparency, blend modes, and opacity masks

Skill Level Intermediate

14h 53m

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- Hi, I'm Deke McClelland.Hello, and welcome to Illustrator CS5 One-On-One Advanced,the second installment in my cradle-to-grave,everything-you-need-to-know series on Adobe Illustrator.And, it's all new. Every single bit of it.If you enjoyed the exhaustive fundamentals portionof the series,and I hope you did,then you're gonna like this course even better.First of all, it's shorter.95 movies shorter, to be exact.It's like a novella; you're gonna fly through it.Second, this is where Illustrator really comes alive.

In chapter 13, live trace,we build a real-world project from sketch to execution.Then I show you how to use gradientsto turn a basic line drawing into a teeming,dare I say, lustrous, illustration.If the gradient tool doesn't do it for you,you can create custom gradients in path sequences,using blends and masks.In chapter 16, I show you how to build a mind-bendingM.C. Escher effect using tile patterns.Then we create a Celtic knotthat weaves in and out of itself with live paint.

If you're interested in advanced type effectsand recoloring your artworkwith the help of automated color harmonies, which you are,spend some time with chapters 18 and 19.I devote an entire chapterto combining the powers of Illustrator and Photoshopto do things neither program can do on its own,and I wrap things up with a look at transparency,blend modes, and opacity masks.These first few movies are set upso you and I are on the same page.If you already performed these stepsback in the fundamentals course,you can skip to chapter 13, and get started on live trace.

And now, go ahead and brace yourself to learn.

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Q: The instructions for installing the dekeKeys don't work on my computer (which is running Mac OS X Lion). Is there an update to these?

A: The dekeKeys distributed with this course will still work for Lion. You just need to add them to a slightly different folder than in previous versions of OS X.

Open a new Finder window and choose Go > Go to Folder. Type the following file path exactly as written below. Copying and pasting may result in an error.

~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator CS5 Settings/en_US

Move and/or copy/paste the dekeKeys to this folder and follow the rest of the instructions as outlined in the video, "Installing the dekeKeys keyboard shortcuts."